Wrecking tool



March 11 1924 1,486,82

J. WIL DER WRECKING TOOL Filed Jan. 11. 1922 J l Midfr Patented Mar. ll,1924.

siren stares JAMES LOUIS WILDER, 0F CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WRECK-ING TOOL.

Application filed January 11, 1922. Serial No. 528,482.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I JAMES L. lVILmiR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Concord, in the county of Merrimack and State of NewHampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in alVrecking Tool; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame. a

This invention relates to a wrecking bar or tool.

One important object is to provide a tool of this kind having a chiselor claw portion disposed at a right angle to and crossed by the medianline of the handle and connected to the handle by a crook or fulcrumbend oifset relatively to the handle to enable the tool to operate inminimum space and to facilitate reception of hammer blows.

Another object is to provide a tool of this character which may be usedfor the diflerent functions incidental to house wrecking and the like,namely prying of boards apart and extracting of nails or spikes at thesame end of the tool to overcome the necessity of reversing it.

A further object is to provide a tool of this character having a chiselend with one .face of the chisel disposed at a right angle 'to thehandle and with the chisel slotted so that it may function as a claw.

Additional objects and advantages will become apparent from aconsideration of the description following taken in connection withaccompanying drawings illustrating one practical embodiment.

In said drawi g's:- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improvedt0ol;' Figure '2- isa side elevation thereof and Figure 3 is a planview. Like reference characters designate like orsimilar parts in thedifierent views.

\ In reducing the invention to practice, the

tool may be made from any suitable material 1 preferably a metallic barof anymsuitable cross sectional configuration.

Said bar or tool has an elongated handle portion 10, which is offset at11 to provide a bend or crook on which the bar may fulcrum and theadjacent terminal of the bar is formed into a suitable tool at 12. Itwill be seen that the median line of theportion 10 crosses the tooll2'intermediate its ends and that such tool at its free end is disposedon the opposite side of said median line to the said offset portion 11.

The lower edge of the tool 12 as at 13 is preferably flat and disposedat a right angle to the bar 10. The free end of the tool 12 has afeather edge as at 14 and an edge or wall 15 extending upwardlytherefrom, being fiat and inclined to thewall 13 forming a chisel. Thischisel ispreferably widened as at 16 and intermediate its side edges isrecessed or slotted as at 17 to receive a nail or spike to be extractedwhereby tool 12 may also function "as a claw.

The end of the bar opposite to the tool 12 may also be utilized as atool and to this end as at 18 is preferably curved or deflected orformed into a chisel or end substantially similar to that of an ordinarycrow bar.

In using the device, the tool 12 may be inserted intermediate boards topry them or it may be used as a claw to receive and extract nails, inthe latter instance the nails being received in the slot 17 and the bar10 actuated as a lever, fulcruming on the crook at 11. When force isnecessary to insert the tool 12 between the boards to engage the head ofa nail when the latter is flush with the surface of the :board, the tool12 may be slightly tilted and a hammer blow dealt on the crook 11 which.will be directly imparted to the tool 12. The particular olfset or crookat 11 effectively reinforces the bar to withstand such hammer blows.tionyas t-hetool 12 serves both as a chisel or the like and as a claw,both prying and extracting functions may be performed while the tool 12is in the same position so as to particularly avoid the necessity ofreversing the bar as must be done where the tool has a claw at one end achisel at the other end.

In addition, the crook 11 enables further movement and accordinglybetter leverage of the handle than would be true if it extended at aright angle to the tool 12 and directly or straight from its rear end.

Also as a result of the crook 11, the tool 12 may be better applied tothe work especially where minimum space for operation of the tool isafforded.

The tool may be used as an ordinary crow bar or pry by bringing the end18 into proper relation with the work as will be understood.

Since merely one practical embodiment has been illustrated anddescribed, it is to be In addi- 1 rec understood that changes in thedetails may of a metallic bar having a handle portion, a tool memberdisposed transversely relatively to said handle portion, thelongitudinal inedian line of said handle portion passing through saidtool member, a substantially semicircular crook ofl'sct out of and openat said line conne ting said handle portion and tool nicinl r, the outermain surface of said tool member being substantially flat from 15 thedistal end of said tool to said line and being in a plane. substantiallyat a right angle to the handle, the outer curved surface of the crookmerging into said flat main wall substantially at said median line, theinner surface of said tool member extending 'from substantially saidline towards the first surface to provide a chisel, and said tool memberhaving its distal end on the side of said line opposite to the crook andbeing widened and having a slot to permit it to function as anextracting claw.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES LOUIS WVILD'ER. \Vitn esses i ALTER F. LINCOLN, \VM. H. HAMMOND.

